Sundays & Suppers
The long-table days
Some occasions want more room and more time. The slower, longer days at The Copper Larder — an unhurried Sunday lunch that nobody rushes to turn, and the occasional supper built around a single winemaker. Same short-menu spirit, just stretched out and savoured.
Sunday as it should be
One roast, done properly. Whatever the Downs farms are giving us that week — Dexter beef, hogget, sometimes a whole roast squash for the table that doesn't eat meat — with dripping potatoes, the best of the market garden and plenty of gravy.
It's served from midday and there's no second sitting hurrying you along. Bring the family, settle in, order another bottle. When the roast runs out, that's the end of Sunday — so it pays to book.
- Three courses £36 per person
- Served from Midday, until it's gone
- For the little ones Smaller plates, half price
- No meat? A proper vegetable roast, always
Suppers with the maker
Every so often we hand the room over to a single grower. They bring a clutch of their bottles — the ones you rarely see on a list — and Mara builds a menu around them, course by course. The maker stays for the evening, pours, and tells you how each wine came to be.
One long table, a set menu, low-intervention wine poured with the people who made it. It's the most convivial night we host — and the seats go quickly.
One grower, one eveningA natural-wine maker we love takes over the room for the night.
A menu built to matchFive or so courses from the Downs and the boats, set against the bottles.
Poured by the makerEach wine introduced at the table by the person who grew and made it.
A night to remember
The Sundays and the suppers are the nights people write to us about afterwards. A few words from those who've pulled up a chair.
"The best Sunday lunch we've had in Sussex, hands down. We arrived at one and somehow it was five o'clock. Nobody hurried us, the beef was extraordinary, and the gravy alone is worth the drive."
Rachel & Sam — Brighton
"The winemaker's supper was something special. Meeting the grower, hearing the story behind each bottle, eating Mara's cooking matched to it — we've been to a lot of dinners and never one this warm."
Daniel O. — Lewes
"We booked the long table for my mother's birthday Sunday. They looked after three generations of us beautifully, found something the children adored, and made an ordinary weekend feel like an occasion."
Priya M. — Ringmer
"Natural wine I'd never have found on my own, poured by the people who made it. The Copper Larder does intimate properly — it never feels staged, just genuinely generous."
Tom H. — Eastbourne